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Tobii Presents First Integrated Eye Tracking

by Tom Allen

In mid-October, Tobii revealed a new eye tracking platform and a set of components for eye tracking technology in consumer devices. These products – the Tobii IS4 platform and EyeChip components – can be …

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Elemental Discusses UHD Content

by Tom Allen

Elemental and IneoQuest will hold a webcast at 8am PST, on the 9th December, about UltraHD content preparation. Topics to be covered will include common pitfalls; best practices for ensuring high-quality video processing and …

Ocean Reaches Edinburgh

by Tom Allen

Ocean Outdoor has launched a new LED tower at Edinburgh Airport in Scotland. The 10.5m-tall Edinburgh One tower was designed by 3D Reid, and holds two 3.84m x 5.76m displays; the base houses LED …

ITU Harmonises Spectrum Use Worldwide

by Tom Allen

The ITU has moved to allocate the 700MHz band (specifically 694-790MHz) to mobile signals at the 2015 World Radiocommunication Conference. The decision applies to ITU Region 1 (EMEA and central Asia); as similar agreements …

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Cheaper Graphene Production Developed?

by Tom Allen

Ravinder Dahiya was a lead researcher on the workGraphene is a next-generation material, heralded as the future of electronics for several years now. However, the material is much more expensive to produce in large …

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US Navy Research Looks at Glass Alternative

by Norbert Hildebrand

In a recent article “US Navy research looks at glass alternative”, it was suggested that a new high tech material could make a smartphone unbreakable by using a material developed for transparent armor and …

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Folium Creates Low-Power Flexible Displays

by Tom Allen

Folium Optics is a UK start-up that is working with a technology to create low-power displays on plastic substrates. As well as being made of plastic – enabling flexible form factors – the displays …

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LDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 48

by Tom Allen

Taiwan’s Economic Daily News claims that Apple will show new 13″ and 15″ Macbook Air models at WWDC 2016, next summer. The 11″ model will be discontinued, and the new editions will be thinner …

Online Shoppers Compete With In-Store on Black Friday

by Tom Allen

The CTA (formerly CEA) estimated that 56.9 million American adults (45% of all shoppers) bought or planned to buy technology products over the Thanksgiving shopping week (from the 23rd – 30th November). A new …

Tobii Pushes Eye Tracking for Advertising

by Tom Allen

Tobii has announced a large-scale eye tracking survey panel in Sweden. Attention data will be continuously collected from 1,000 eye trackers in households around the country, attached to laptops and PCs. The data will …

Imagination Takes 2015 Elektra Awards

by Tom Allen

Hossein Yassaie, CEO of Imagination Technologies, has been honoured with the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award at the Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards. At the same event, in London on the 24th November, Imagination won …

Chinese LEDs Used in Times Square Strip

by Tom Allen

Retop has installed a large MEX strip display on the DoubleTree Suites by Hilton building on Times Square, New York City. The strip is 13.34m x 49.38m and uses a 76.2mm pixel pitch. It …

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